The Doctor (Alt!10)

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The Mun

The Character

The Doctor (David Tennant) is decidedly scruffier now that he has lost his magic genetic hair gel and his lack of facial hair.
  • Name: The Doctor (Metacrisis Version), aka Alt!10
  • Age/Birthdate: 904, just under 2000, or 2 days (on entry into the game), depending on who you ask.
  • Canon: Doctor Who
  • Canon Entry Point: The day after "Journey's End"
  • Journal: http://ahumanlife.livejournal.com/

Defining Abilities and Attributes

The Doctor is very clever. Even as a human, he has an IQ that's off the charts. His memory and learning curve surpasses that of normal humans, however he's still trying to learn how to work with the cognitive limits that come of a human brain as opposed to a Time Lord's brain. Ergo, he's rather absent-minded, and it will sometimes take him a good long while to pull something out of the massive amounts of information in his head.

Other than that, he's pretty much your average human male.

Personality

The Doctor is extremely clever, extremely cheeky, and prone to acting manic. He's easily distracted by "shinies" (anything of interest, really), and loves meeting new people. He also has a soft spot for lost causes and the underdog, and is willing to fight for the "right thing" despite protestations of pacifism. His manic bouncy ADD covers some pretty deep guilt and loss issues, and he is just as capable of being merciless as he is to show mercy. Since the metacrisis (see below), he's also had elements of Donna Noble's personality mixed in with all that - namely a slightly different way of speaking and a tendency to say "Oi" and "wizard" more often. Why "wizard" is uncertain, possibly he just likes it. He's also got quite a few newly developed emotional problems - some stemming from his extant guilt and a mind that can't tuck it back out of his conscious as well, and some stemming from the fact that he's... not precisely the Doctor.

Background

On a planet called Gallifrey, nearly two thousand years ago (in his personal linear time, anyway), a Gallifreyan child was born. Or loomed, depending on who you talk to. His personality quirks have led most to speculate he was born from a natural conception and gestation, though nothing has been proven. He was, as was usual, put thought the Academy, and the young Time Lord who graduated was all too eager to put the stuffy, bureaucratic planet behind. He salvaged an old TARDIS from the scrap heap and took off adventuring. At some point, he married, and had at least one child, who went on to give him at least one grandchild. Over the years, the Doctor travelled and regenerated and saved worlds and the universe more than once. He was banished and outcast from Gallifrey more than once, but he was also offered the presidency more than once, so the jury's still out as to whether or not he was at all liked on Gallifrey. Signs usually point to "no", though.

In his eighth body (or generation), he was drawn into the very end of the great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks, and was pressured into taking the final step, to end the war, though it would destroy Gallifrey and the Time Lords along with the Daleks. The Doctor himself was supposed to perish as well, but only regenerated. Very shortly after awakening and pulling himself together after that, he went to earth, to deal with the Nestene. There, he met a 19-year-old human girl named Rose Tyler.

A handful of assorted companions, one regeneration (which involved losing and regrowing his hand), and several failed attempts at genocide later, the Doctor and his companion Donna Noble, along with Torchwood, Sarah Jane Smith, Martha Jones, and Rose Tyler (back from the parallel world she'd been trapped in), stopped Davros and the latest (and hopefully last) attack by the Daleks. And in the middle of the adventure, in the midst of the TARDIS nearly being destroyed, Donna triggered a metacrisis with the Doctor's previously-severed hand, which had been filled with regenerative energy after a near-regeneration. A half-human, half-Time Lord version of the Doctor emerged from that... and that is where our personal Doctor comes in. He's human, one heart, no regenerations, no special Time Lord abilities, just a really good memory, a knack for technology, and a knack for getting out of tight corners. In the end, with Donna's help getting it all started, this new Human Doctor destroyed the Dalek fleet, causing them all to self-destruct. The "proper" Doctor left him in the parallel world with Rose, after all that, telling Rose that as a genocide, born in war, he was basically the same man he'd been when Rose had first met him. After being able to tell Rose what the "proper" Doctor couldn't, and a good snog, the "proper" Doctor and Donna left, going back to their universe, leaving him with Rose and Jackie.

It would have been all right, with Rose, who wanted to be with him, as far as he could tell, which she gave every indication of. But as they walked away from that beach, hand in hand... she looked back.

So now he's just trying to come to terms with what it means to be human, and himself.

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